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Public Sector Agricultural Extension System Reform and the Challenges Ahead
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Rivera, William M. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2011
This paper is organized into two main sections. The first section examines extension as an engine for innovation and reviews the numerous priorities confronting extension systems. Section two highlights the current knowledge imperative and the critical connection of extension to post-secondary higher education and training, organizational…
Descriptors: Inservice Education, Rural Extension, Public Sector, Change Strategies
Production and Beyond: A Defining Moment for Public Sector Extension
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Rivera, William M. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2009
Two imperatives form the basis of the present paper. The first is the market-driven imperative, vital to production and value-chain development. The second is the knowledge imperative, central to the advancement of human capacity and institutional development. In view of these two imperatives, this paper argues for overhaul in extension toward a…
Descriptors: Public Sector, Rural Extension, Agricultural Education, Administrative Organization
Pathways and Tensions in the Family of Reform
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Rivera, William M. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2008
This paper distinguishes two pathways in the various proposals for innovative reforms of public sector agricultural extension. The two "pathways" involve the participatory trends toward democratization and farmer association and, in contrast, the push toward capitalistic commercial attitudes toward agriculture as business. The introduction reviews…
Descriptors: Rural Extension, Agricultural Education, Educational Change, Privatization
Three (Post-Secondary Agricultural Education and Training) Challenges and the Concept of "Workforce Education Systems"
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Rivera, William M. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2008
The Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Program (CAADP) of the Africa Union's New Partnership for Africa's Development (AU/NEPAD), the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), in collaboration with the University of KwaZulu-Natal, held in January 2008, a conference on the subject of "Convergence between Social Service…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Social Sciences, Foreign Countries, Productivity
Rural Knowledge and Information Systems for Non-Agricultural Rural Needs
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Rivera, William M. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2006
As developing countries gradually rely less upon agriculture for rural income, rural economies require new solutions to access knowledge and information systems for rural development. Non-agricultural rural knowledge and information systems can play a significant role in developing and disseminating successful strategies to escape rural poverty.…
Descriptors: Information Systems, Rural Development, Rural Areas, Developing Nations
Extension System Reform and the Challenges Ahead
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Rivera, William M.; Alex, Gary – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2004
Public agricultural extension services around the world are being pressured to adapt to new funding constraints and a changing agricultural sector. The global perspective on extension is no longer that of a unified public sector service, but of a multi-institutional network of knowledge and information support for rural people. This reality and…
Descriptors: Privatization, Rural Extension, Global Approach, Workshops
Agricultural Extension into the Next Decade.
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Rivera, William M. – European Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 1997
Discusses three worldwide policy trends--privatization, revitalization, and decentralization--and their impact on economic development and extension education. (SK)
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Decentralization, Educational Change, Educational Trends